Papers of the University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs [manuscript] 1925-1953.

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Papers of the University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs [manuscript] 1925-1953.

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Correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts of speeches, registration cards, news letters manuscripts, and clipppings. Correspondents include: Everett Ross Clinchy, Fred Essery, Frank Fuller, Henry (Harry) Augustus Garfield, Frank S. Hopkins, Edwin L. James, Charles Gilmore Maphis, William Emmet Moore, and John Sharp Williams. Original manuscripts from Round Tables, Open Forums and Special Conferences cover a variety of contemporary political issues including the agricultural problem and rural affairs, Latin American relations, municipal management, political parties, women in society, local government, taxes, the influence of the press, economic and industrial development of the south, the country church, democracy, law enforcement, the 18th amendment, reorganization of state government, regionalism, unemployment, the chain store, economic recovery, anti-trust laws, League of Nations, religious education and religion in America, educational issues, money and banking, dictatorship and democracy (rise of fascism and communism in Europe), monetary systems, government regulation and state planning, conflict in the Far East, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the International Labor Organization, taxation, the Constitution and the New Deal, American-German relations, public opinion, politics in 1936, world peace and international security, social security, national defense, World War II, U. S. as a world power and the post-war world. Round Table speakers include: Sherwood Anderson, Harry Elmer Barnes, Stringfellow Barr, Paul Barringer, Ismar Baruch, Leon M. Bazile, Víctor Andrés Belaúnde, Abraham Berglund, Emily Newell Blair, William Cabell Bruce, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Olive Dame Campbell, Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, Mamie White (Mrs. D. Leigh) Colvin, Carlos G. Davila, Goldthwaite H. Dorr, Will Durant, Orestes Ferrara, John Gould Fletcher, Dixon Ryan Fox, Wilson Gee, Carter Glass, Jonah J. Goldstein, Robert Kent Gooch, Rolvix Harlan, Henry I. Harriman, Cordell Hull, Louis I. Jaffe, Marion Booth Kelley, W. Jett Lauck, Juan A. Lliteras, Leifur Magnusson, Charles G. Maphis, Lucy Randolph Mason, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Laura Waples McMullen, Philip Ainsworth Means, Felix Morley, Lewis Mumford, Benjamin Muse, Otto Nathan, Henry Kittredge Norton, Frances Perkins, Adamantios Th. Polyzoides, David de Sola Pool, Grace Morrison Poole, Aurelia H. Reinhardt, Albert C. Ritchie, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Victor Rosewater, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Carlo Sforza, Henry L. Shattuck, Paul Vanorden Shaw, Flavel Shurtleff, Charles Stephenson Smith, Ethelbert Stewart, Camilo Barcia Trelles, Oswald Garrison Villard, Charl Ormond Williams, William Carlos Williams. Collection also includes six reel to reel tapes, 1952-1957, from conferences[?] or panel discussions[?] held at the University of Virginia. Tape one (poor tape quality) contains a speech and panel discussion on Eastern Europe. Topics include Free World radio programs directed to Eastern Europe and possibilities of revolution against Stalinist Russian by satellite countries. U. Va. Professor Thomas T. Hammond is a panelist. Tape two (poor tape quality) contains a panel discussion on problems with U. S. relations and responsibilities towards other countries. Topics include foreign aid and the underlying motives, technical assistance and the role of the United Nations. Tapes three and four appear to be from a three day discussion on foreign problems of the U.S. presidency. Topics include NATO; Spain's role in the Cold War; Tito, Yugoslavia and the Cold War; Germany; conduct of foreign policy in contempt of the United Nations; and post World War II power alignments. Panelists and speakers include Clifford Dancer, Alfred Fernbach, Feliks Gross, Stephen Kacus, Frederick Nolting, and Sidney C. Sufrin. Dean Rusk was one of the moderators. Tape four was recorded over another tape and quality is very poor. Tape five appears to be three radio broadcasts, 1956-1957, on Morocco; the Middle East and Egypt including denouncements of British occupation of the Sudan and the French protectorate in Morocco; and the labor movement in America. Henry Fowler was a speaker. Tape six, discusses the Middle East, 1952[?]. Topics include the importance of the Middle East; the history of the area and its strategic importance in the Cold War, the politics of each state and the United States' role; a projected Muslim revolution against imperialism; and the Muslim religion as a deterrent to Russian expansion.

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